There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONBe yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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